Charlie Parker is back in the Bay Area. To be specific, he has returned to Oakland — and to the Daniel Patterson Group.

As of today, Parker is officially taking over the kitchen at Haven, the DPG’s restaurant in Jack London Square.

A Bay Area native, Parker was last seen in the Bay Area as the chef at Haven’s Uptown sister restaurant Plum, where he earned Chronicle Rising Star status in 2011. He left that same year to spend several years down in Los Angeles at Freddy Smalls, where he garnered very good reviews. Per the Los Angeles Times: “His cooking is much more polished than you’d expect in such a place, less about heroic quantities and nose-to-tail eating than about sparkling fresh produce, seductive flavors and graceful plating.”

Haven has been open since late 2011. In a funny little coincidence, its opening chef — Kim Alter — is now at Plum. Chris Johnson, who has been the chef at Haven since Alter slid over to Plum last fall, is going back to the Coi kitchen, where he spent the previous two years.

Expect Parker’s menu changes to take effect over the next month or two.